About this journal
Tessera Notes is a single-author notebook. The name comes from the small ceramic tiles used in antiquity — each one unremarkable alone, but together they form a picture that outlasts the wall it was set into.
The writing here is concerned with three threads: how software systems keep their shape under load; how interfaces borrow from older, slower crafts; and how to write about technical work without losing the texture of doing it.
There is no comment section, no newsletter, no tracking. If something here is useful, the kindest thing is to write your own piece in reply and link back.
Maintained since 2024. Revised, never deleted.